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Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION (NYA)

By: Maria Stamatis

ESTABLISHED ON

June 26, 1935
Photo by CPSutcliffe

PURPOSE

  • Helped youth
  • Founded jobs for the youth
  • Trained youth for jobs
  • Taught reading, writing, and arithmetic

IT AFFECTS & BENEFITS…

  • It affected may teenagers
  • Any one between the age of 16 and 25
  • Youth that needed to learn

SUCESSFUL💗

  • Helped many kids
  • Eleanor Roosevelt took great joy in the program
  • She wrote about it in her autobiography

NOT AROUND ANYMORE😭😭

  • It needed $58,000,000 to run
  • Congress shut it down in 1943
  • Congress thought it was too expensive and needed the money for the upcoming war.

WORKS CITED

  • Graham, Otis L., and "National Youth Administration." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.. 2014. "Youth Administration, National." Encyclopedia.com. HighBeam Research, 01 Jan. 2003. Web. 06 May 2015. Website
  • "National Youth Administration | Next New Deal." National Youth Administration | Next New Deal. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 May 2015. Website